Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-12-21

to say that your firm was actually
Smith, Emmet Sc JohnsonP"
"Yes; do you know it?''
''know i'll Why, it's mine. I've
been there nine years; and OIL what "A
stupid thick head must have, that it
did not strike me at once. You are
Rowlands?'' --- -
"Whati have you heard them speak
of me?"
''Indeed. yes. Ours, as you know,
Mr.. Rowlands, is an old-fashioned
house, with many curious hooks and
corners Some three years ago the
governors resolved to have the Office
lifted up in the modern style. We had
to crowd bit, and to use one part of
the office while the workmen altered
the other, Almost the first thing they
did was 20 pull down what must have
been your old desk, and the waInscot-
ing to which it was affixed. One of the
partners was looking on and 1 heard
his loud exclamation of surprise soon
after the wainscotiDg was taken from
the wall. He had stopped to pick up a
bundle of papers covered with dust.
They must have been between the
bricks and lhe woodwork for many
years His exclamation was caused by
the discovery that this bundle of papers
was packet of bank notes.
THANK heaven-thank heaven! l
see IL all, }" cried the old man.
"Then," said Frank, 1--WE heard all
about 1t. The other partners came in
to examine the notes, and bit by bit, in
the course OF conversation, We heard
your story. But why didn't you call
after the governors advertised for you?''
II saw no advertisement. Men out
of the world as 1 have been seldom look
at advertisements, except. when they
want work"
what a pityI The old governor
said he'd give a thousand pounds to
find you"
That evening was. perhaps, the hap
piest evening these four people had
ever spent. The old man was jubilant
and could not sit still for five minutes
at time. He kept walking about
and clapping Frank on the back every
now and then would call him his dear
boy. He would sit down and laugh
then stand up and laugh, till his old
wife began to fear that he was turning
crazy. 1t was very late hour indeed
before he would part with Frank, who,
1t was arranged, should the next Mon
day morning inform the firm of his dis
covery, leaving them to take their own
method of righting the great wrong
that had been done.
Frank lost no time in obtaining a
private interview with his employers,
one satisfactory result being that he
had an advance IN salary before he left
the room. 1t was not long before
Smith " Co. had done all they possibly
could to compensate their old servant
I.rc ut fGfA 10 hal
too long out of the city, and was too
much altered, to be of any use in their
office, but they gave him comfortable
annuity, and he had, through them.
more than one opportunity of seeing
some of those who had known him of
old, and of making them aware that his
good name had been rehabilitated.
As TO what happened afterwards to
Frank and Mary, have little to say
Last summer 1 spent day at their
suburban villa some few miles from
Broad street.: MIS- Denton was a most
amiabie hostess; her father and mother
seemed as happy as old people without
a care in the world ought to be- L had
the pleasure of riding Master Frank
Emmett Denton on my knees; and as
for Frank, senior, he contided to me in
the garden that since he had been mar
ried he was the ''aZiest beggar out, ="
and hardly ever went anywhere excep.
on business.